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February 7 - 1 Samuel 26 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. Sean here.
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  It's Wednesday. It's the middle of the week,
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  it's the 7th of February and you have invited me in so that you
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  and I can read another chapter of God's Word today.
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  And just in case we didn't quite get the full picture that David
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  could have killed Saul but chose not to, well, it happens today
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  again. Yes, the author is really going
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  to great lengths to make this point that the throne was given
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  to David by God, not something that he took before the time was
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  right. So we continue to see what are
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  the important attributes that God would have us know that he
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  values in his people and in his kingship.
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  And yes, this will all become solidified as he creates his
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  covenant with David, which will be the climax of this entire
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  book. But that comes in the second
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  half of the book, in Second Samuel.
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  So we're a bit away from that happening.
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  Yes, we have still got some ways to travel before then, but we'll
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  get there in good time, friends. So let us read together today's
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  reading. First Samuel, Chapter 26.
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  Now some men from Zif came to Saul at Gibier to tell him David
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  is hiding on the hill of her killer which overlooks Jessiman.
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  So Saul took 3000 of Israel's elite troops and went to hunt
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  him down in the wilderness of Ziff.
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  Saul came along the road beside the hill of Hakkila, near
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  Jessmon, where David was hiding. When David learned that Saul had
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  come after him into the wilderness, he sent out spies to
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  verify the report of Saul's arrival.
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  David slipped over to Saul's camp one night to look around.
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  Saul and Abner, son of near the commander of his army, was
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  sleeping inside a ring formed by the slumbering warriors.
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  Who will volunteer to go in there with me?
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  David asked Amalek, the Hittite and Abishai, son of Jeremiah,
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  Joe's brother. I'll go with you, Abishi
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  replied. So David and Abishai went right
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  into Saul's camp and found him asleep with his spear stuck in
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  the ground beside his head. Abner and the soldiers were
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  lying asleep around him. God has surely handed your enemy
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  over to you at this time, Abshire whispered to David.
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  Let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear.
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  I won't need to strike twice. No, David said.
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  Don't kill him, For who can remain innocent after attacking
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  the Lord's anointed? 1 Surely the Lord will strike so
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  all down someday, or he will die of old age or in battle.
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  The Lord forbid that I should kill the one he has anointed,
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  but take his spear and that jug of water beside his head and
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  then let's get out of here. Sir David took the spear and jug
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  of water that lay near Salem's head.
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  Then he and Abshire got away without anyone seeing them or
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  even waking up because the Lord had put Saul's men into a deep
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  sleep. David climbed the hill opposite
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  the camp until he was at a safe distance.
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  Then he shouted down to the soldiers and to Abner, son of
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  Nair. Wake up, Abner.
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  Who is it? Abna demanded.
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  Well, Abna, you're a great man, aren't you?
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  David taunted. Where in all Israel is there
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  anyone as mighty? So why haven't you guarded your
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  master, the king, when someone came to kill him?
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  This isn't good at all. I swear by the Lord that you and
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  your men deserve to die because you failed to protect your
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  master, The Lords anointed. Look around.
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  Where is the King's spear and the jug of water that were
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  beside his head? Soul recognised David's voice
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  and called out. Is that you, my son David And
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  David replied. Yes, my Lord the king.
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  Why are you chasing me? What have I done?
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  What is my crime? But now let my Lord the king
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  listen to his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up
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  against me, then let him accept my offering.
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  But if this is simply a human scheme, then may those involve
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  be cursed by the Lord. For they have driven me from my
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  home, so I can no longer live amongst the Lord's people.
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  And they have said, go worship Pagan gods.
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  Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the Lord?
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  Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea?
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  Why does he hunt me down like a Partridge on the mountains?
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  Then Saul confessed. They have sinned.
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  Come back home, my son, and I will no longer try to harm you,
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  for you valued my life. Today I have been a fool and
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  very, very wrong. Here is your spear, O King,
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  David replied. Let one of your young men come
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  over and get it. The Lord gives his own reward
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  for doing good and for being loyal.
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  And I refuse to kill you even when the Lord placed you in my
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  power, for you are the Lord's anointed one.
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  Now may the Lord value my life, even as I have valued yours
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  today. May he rescue me from all my
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  troubles. And Saul said to David,
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  Blessings on you, my son. David, you will do many heroic
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  deeds, and you will surely succeed.
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  Then David went away and Saul returned home.
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  Lord, in your word today you point out the difference between
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  human schemes and your schemes. And there are no shortages of
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  human schemes. All the ideas that people have
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  that we want to pursue, many of them for our own benefit or for
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  the benefit of those we love most.
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  But we love with selfish, sinful hearts.
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  Lord, not with your perfect heart.
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  You love those who are destitute.
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  You love those who are unlovable that we find so hard to love.
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  Lord, may your love continue to shape our hearts.
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  May your love soften us and fill up our hearts so that we, with
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  hearts overflowing with love, would be able to give love to
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  those who are indeed hardest to love, so that this world would
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  have a taste of your priorities. Well, we love.
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  Not because people deserve love. We love because you are a God of
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  love, and your way is love and we are your people.
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  Lord, fill us with your love. May this be a world of love in
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  all the corners that lack it. And we thank you for loving us
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  first. And we pray all of this in the
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  loving name of Jesus. Amen.